A new building for the Children and Women’s Bureau Unit at Opanayake Police Station

The new Children and Women’s Bureau building, constructed with all the necessary facilities within the Opanayake Police Station in the Ratnapura Division, was opened on the evening of 20.07.2025 under the patronage of the Acting Inspector General of Police, Attorney-at-Law, Priyantha Weerasooriya, with the participation of the Senior DIG in charge of the Sabaragamuwa Province, Mahinda Gunaratne. 

The aim of establishing the Children and Women’s Bureau with modern facilities is to create a suitable environment for children and women in the area to file a complaint regarding a problem they have encountered or a crime they have faced, while protecting their privacy, and to create a suitable working environment to act to prevent crimes against them.

This work will continue to be carried out in police stations across the island under the financial support of the United Nations Population Fund, and this building is one of the buildings constructed in this way.

Senior officers of the province, including the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the Ratnapura District, Manjula Mahagirilla, the Senior Superintendent of Police in charge of the Ratnapura Division, Kapila Premadasa, participated in this event.